Disinfecting compound and process of making.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. SCHUTZ, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

DISINFECTING COMPOUND AND PROCESS OF MAKING.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. SCHUTZ, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Disinfecting Compounds and Processes ofMaking the Same, of which the following is a full, true, and exactspecification.

My invention relates to disinfecting compounds and has special referenceto an improved quick burning sulfurous compound and a novel process ofmanufacturing the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a compound which-when ignitedwill burn freely and will rapidly throw off or evolve a large volume ofsulfurous acid fumes and vapors. Such fumes are of well known.disinfecting and germicidal value in the destruction of bacteria, fungi,vermin and insects.

My invention consists in a porous, foraminous compound preferably madeup of substantially equal quantities of uniformly admixed and fused orsintered sulfur and coke, characterized by a considerable proportion ofoccluded water.

In making this compound I preferably use crude brimstone, which isconsiderably cheaper than refined sulfur. The carbonaceous ingredient ofthe compound is coke which contains a considerable quantity of water,such as gas house and oven coke.

The first step of my novel process consists in melting the sulfur orbrimstone in a suitable vessel by applying heat thereto. This havingbeen accomplished, I stir into, and thoroughly admix with, the moltensulfur a substantially equal quantity of crushed or pulverized coke,maintaining the requisite temperature and continuing the stirring oragitation until a uniform molten or plastic admixture or mass results.As a final step I pour the molten mixture or compound into cold water,preferably a running stream of water, whereby and wherein the compoundis cooled, and is roughly granulated and broken up into chunks orpieces. During this cooling step of the process, the compound is furthercharged with water. The large granules or pieces, of many sizes, do

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 14, 1909.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Serial No. 512,846.

Various modifications of the herein described compound and certainrefinements of the herein described process will readily suggestthemselves to one who is skilled in the art. This being true, I do notconfine my invention to the precise constituents or proportions ofsulfur, carbon and water which go to make up my novel compound in itspreferred form; nor do I limit the invention to the specific stepsherein set forth as constituting my novel process.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. The herein described disinfecting compound in the form of cinderousporous lumps composed of substantially equal parts of agglomeratedsulfur and coke, occluding a portion of water.

2. The herein described disinfecting com pound in the form of cinderousporous lumps composed of substantially equal parts of agglomeratedsulfur and pulverized coke containing a portion of absorbed water.

3. The herein described improvement in the art of manufacturingdisinfecting compounds which consists in melting sulfur in a suitablereceptacle, then admixing therewith a substantially equal quantity ofpul verized carbonaceous material and then suddenly cooling and breakingup the molten mass by pouring into water, thereby producing many smallcinderous lumps of the compound.

4:. The herein described improvement in the art of manufacturingdisinfecting compounds that consists in reducing crude brimstone to amolten state, then admixing there- In testimony whereof, I have hereuntoset with, While still molten, a quantity of pulmy hand, this 11 day ofAugust, 1909, 111 verized coke, mamtaining the molten charthe presenceof two subscribing Witnesses.

acter of the mixture and then suddenly cool- JOSEPH M. SCHUTZ. ing andbreaking up the resulting substance lVit-nesses:

by pouring the same into a cooling liquid, L. K. EATON,

substantially as described. MILLIE DORUM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

